Its been 2 yrs! Hi... Im Ella.. thinking back now I can recall episodes of vertigo and vision impairment dating back to as early as 2005... The symptoms last year August were obviously not the onset but perhaps a relapse.... none of my doctors pieced any of this together until now did it seem to make sense...It's almost a year since my diagnosis... and although it was very scary at first.. I feel much more in control... having accepted the diagnosis and know that how I deal with MS has a lot to do with how it's going to deal with me. MS does not define who I am. Just gives me more character